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Witness History: Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

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Eduardo Mondlane - Mozambique's independence hero

06/01/2022 GMT

Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

BBC World Service - Witness History, Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule remembered by his daughter

In 1969, Eduardo Mondlane - the leader of Mozambique's fight against Portuguese colonial rule  - was assassinated. His daughter, Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane, remembers him.

On February 3rd 1969, Eduardo Mondlane - the founder of  FRELIMO, Mozambique’s Liberation Front against Portuguese colonial rule  - was assassinated in a bomb attack in Tanzania. Mondlane started out as a teacher and academic, but his daughter Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane has been telling Rebecca Kesby why he swapped the university library for guerrilla warfare - and how it cost him his life.

PHOTO: Eduardo Mondlane in 1966 (Getty Images)

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